We made an interactive adventure game for Electric Sky where participants save a simulated society who’s running on a machine without enough memory. Here’s some art I made explaining the game:
There was quite a complicated backstory. Basically, simulated people are plagued by a black hole in their world, a visual representation of the mechanical memory leak. Naturally, the Oregon Trail is involved as the theme of the festival is “The Digital Frontier.”
Your job (as a player) was to save the simulated people from their data leak. Here’s a couple of our kiosks below that gave the player their choose-your-own-adventure-like instructions. They flicked on like they were analog arc lights when they sensed you were near. Pretty cool if I may say so myself.
Most kiosks included sensors that detected your actions like pressure (see how long you can sit still here!) to detecting if players were able to save a stuffed animal from a tube. If you failed, you died of dysentery (Oregon Trail reference!) and were told about it via a laser writing it in the treeline.
We’re def light on the pictures from the event this year. I’m going to say that’s because we were in the moment!
